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Patched "Dust: A Tale of the Wired West" to run on WinXP and Win7

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Patched "Dust: A Tale of the Wired West" to run on WinXP and Win7

Post by mrxstudios » Fri Aug 28, 2020 7:49 pm

I managed to get "Dust: A Tale of the Wired West" (1995) to work on a WinXP and Win7 VM by patching out a CD-ROM speed test in the executable.
This blog post details how I did it.

https://mrxstudios.home.blog/2020/08/28 ... ired-west/

I hope it's useful to someone :)
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Re: Patched "Dust: A Tale of the Wired West" to run on WinXP and Win7

Post by ikskoks » Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:11 pm

Nice article and clever fix. :wink:
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Re: Patched "Dust: A Tale of the Wired West" to run on WinXP and Win7

Post by mrxstudios » Sat Aug 29, 2020 3:21 pm

ikskoks wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:11 pm
 Nice article and clever fix. :wink:
Thanks so much! I appreciate the comment :)
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